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New York City health officials are warning residents that the infectious omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 may be more likely to infect people who have already been vaccinated or infected with COVID-19.  “Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC,” the NYC Department of Health and …

The fast-spreading Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 43% of the COVID-19 cases in the United States for the week ended Jan. 14, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Friday. The subvariant accounted for about 30% of cases in the first week of …

Devastated by post-traumatic stress disorder, Jonathan Lubecky tried to take his own life in 2006.  “I put a loaded nine-millimeter to my temple, and I pulled the trigger,” he said. “That was the first suicide attempt that I had. I’ve had a total of five.” After his last attempt in …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that a preliminary COVID-19 vaccine “safety signal” has been identified and is investigating whether the Bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine creates an increased risk of ischemic stroke in people 65 and older. In the Friday statement, the CDC said that the preliminary signal …

A general view of a newly installed Ebola Treatment Unit, with 32 beds, also to be used as a research center for Ebola strains and vaccine trial, in Kampala, Uganda, December 9, 2022. BADRU KATUMBA/AFP/Getty Uganda was declared Ebola free on Wednesday after the latest outbreak of the virus claimed …

Vaccination rates among kindergarten children against potentially deadly diseases such as polio, measles and diphtheria fell in the 2021-2022 school year, extending the previous year’s slide from pre-pandemic levels, a U.S. government study showed on Thursday. The fall in rates for the four most commonly required childhood vaccines reflects the …

American women are having fewer babies, and they’re having them later in life, government figures released Tuesday show. Data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s statistic arm — showed a sharp decline in fertility rates in recent years, with most women …

Russia sees no dangers from Beijing’s relaxation of measures to fight COVID-19 and will not impose extra restrictions on people arriving from China, Tass news agency cited a senior official as saying on Thursday. China last month abandoned a strict anti-virus regime of mass lockdowns, prompting a rise in the …

A man walks past the office enterance of Marion Biotech, a pharmaceutical company in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, December 29, 2022. AFP/Getty New Delhi — The World Health Organization has issued an alert warning against the use of two Indian cough syrups blamed for the deaths of …

Surgeons removed all cancerous tissue from a small lesion above first lady Jill Biden’s right eye and one on the left side of her chest.  In a memorandum, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the physician to President Biden, said an additional lesion on her left eyelid was being examined. The letter said examinations …